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Posterior Analytics

Aristotle on demonstration, scientific knowledge, and first principles, in two books.

This edition presents the original Greek (Ross (OCT, 1964)) side by side with English translations (G. R. G. Mure, E. S. Bouchier, O. F. Owen) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 2 books, 53 chapters.

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• Mure Greek & English · G. R. G. Mure (Oxford, 1928)
• Bouchier Greek & English · E. S. Bouchier (Blackwell, 1901)
• Owen Greek & English · O. F. Owen (Bohn, 1853)

Books

• Book I 34 chapters · 71a1–20
• Book II 19 chapters · 89b23–100b17

Greek text & translations

Greek: W. D. Ross, ed. Aristotelis analytica priora et posteriora. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964.
Translations: G. R. G. Mure (Oxford, 1928); E. S. Bouchier (Blackwell, 1901); O. F. Owen (Bohn, 1853).
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In print

Modern, copyright-protected translations and commentaries we can’t host here, for readers who want to go further:

• TranslationHippocrates G. Apostle, Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics (The Peripatetic Press, 1981) Find in print →
• TranslationC. D. C. Reeve, trans., in Aristotle: The Complete Works, 2 vols. (Hackett, 2024) Find in print →
• CommentaryJonathan Barnes, Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Aristotle Series, Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 1994) Find in print →

Prefer a paper copy? These in-print editions carry the translation read here (or a revision of it):

• In printG. R. G. Mure’s translation, found in Richard McKeon, ed., The Basic Works of Aristotle (Random House, 1941; repr. Modern Library, 2001) Find in print →

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